2023-09-15 17:05:49
– A former soldier indicted for crimes once morest humanity
A former officer of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) was indicted on Wednesday in Paris for acts committed between 1994 and 1996, AFP learned Friday from sources close to the case.
Published today at 7:05 p.m.
The civil war in Liberia, which left 250,000 dead between 1989 and 2003, was one of the deadliest conflicts on the African continent, with massacres, mutilations, rapes, acts of cannibalism and forced recruitment of child soldiers.( archive images).
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A former officer of rebel leader Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) was indicted on Wednesday in Paris for crimes once morest humanity in the 1990s during Liberia’s civil war, AFP learned Friday from sources close to the case.
Placed under judicial supervision, this man of Liberian origin is accused of acts allegedly committed in Liberia, in the counties of Nimba and Bong, between March 1, 1994 and August 1996, according to one of these sources. .
This man born in 1965 who had lived in France for more than 20 years and worked in a bar in the east of the country, according to another of these sources, is accused of violence, torture, in his name, and possibly in as an accomplice.
The investigation was carried out by gendarmes from the Central Office for the Fight once morest Crimes Against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH).
The man was placed under judicial supervision once morest the advice of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, which requested his placement in pre-trial detention, two sources indicated.
“The guarantees of representation of my client and the age of the facts took precedence over the seriousness of the prevention,” said the defendant’s lawyer, Me Margaux Van Der Have, interviewed by AFP.
250,000 dead
The civil war in Liberia, which left 250,000 dead between 1989 and 2003, was one of the deadliest conflicts on the African continent, with massacres, mutilations, rapes, acts of cannibalism and forced recruitment of child soldiers.
No trials have to date been held in Liberia on abuses committed in this country, but several have taken place abroad.
A former rebel commander, Kunti Kamara, was sentenced in November 2022 in Paris to life imprisonment for being complicit in crimes once morest humanity. He announced his intention to appeal.
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